Frank Lloyd Wright’s shingle, as it were: this is the cast concrete lettering (the etch marks, I am told, come from the form, which was chiseled) advertising FLW’s architectural and design practice in front of the office portion of his home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois.
Not so sure American Express would agree…
“In 1911 Frank Lloyd Wright took the original limestone plaque that bore his name and logo (the cross with in circle within a square) to put into an entrance wall at Taliesin, his new home near Spring Green, Wisconsin. The restoration architects made a rubbing of the original and produced a drawing that guided the stonecutter in carving the reproduction seen in this photograph. American Express financed the reprodcution.”
Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust, ed. Zarine Weil. “Building A Legacy: the Restoration of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Oak Park Home and Studio. San Francisco, CA : Pomegranate, 2001.
Sorry. I am unable to paste-in the photograph mentioned in the above text.
Robert – thanks for this. I guess the person who led the tour didn’t realize that this was a copy of the original. I appreciate the clarification.